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Rejecting Kyoto * USA - Going it alone
And then there was one
Philadelphia,PEN,USA -The Philadelphia Inquirer -Dec. 4, 2007: -- With new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement yesterday that his country will ratify the Kyoto agreement, the United States became the only major industrialized nation that refuses to sign the protocol limiting greenhouse gas emissions... The Bush administration has insisted that the Kyoto accords, which went into effect in 2005, would unreasonably limit this nation's ability to address climate change in ways that recognize its specific environmental and economic concerns... But the inability of the United States to craft a comprehensive domestic energy policy that would reduce its reliance on fossil fuels hardly engenders optimism in Bush's we'll-go-solo approach... A big step was taken late Friday when House Democrats negotiated an agreement on perhaps the most important element of a new energy bill - an update of rules requiring automakers to make more fuel-efficient vehicles... The House bill would mandate new cars and light trucks to average 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Current law will require new cars to average 27.5 m.p.g. next year; light trucks, 22.5 m.p.g.... But Republican opposition is strong in both houses of Congress, so its ultimate fate is far from assured... Especially with Bush threatening to whip out his veto stamp... (Video from YouTube, by Color3Lab -24 Sept 2007: Part 4 - This part highlights the air in our atmosphere and shows some of the causes of pollution in San Francisco & Los Angeles)
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